Wilderness Road

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

The principal route for westward migration in the United States from c. 1790 to 1840. Blazed largely by Daniel Boone in 1775, it stretched from Virginia and across the Appalachian Mountains to the Cumberland Gap and the Ohio River.

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Examples

Even Ruth must acknowledge that a night's ride over the Wilderness Road was the work of a man -- the work of a strong, brave man.

The furniture, it seemed, had come from his own house in what was called the Wilderness Road, not far from the river banks, over the site of which limited trains now rolled on their way eastward toward the northernmost of the city's bridges.

The Wilderness Road was pretty much America's first major ground transit project, intended to open up the freshly acquired "Kentucke" territory to settlers and -- almost more importantly -- to salt boilers.